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Parents demand 26-year-old niece give free private lessons to their kids, dropping the kids off for tutoring without even asking, leading to family dispute: 'I'm done being their private teacher'

Bar Mor Hazut

Parent stalls returning a bento box that a teacher accidentally sent home with her kid in hopes she could keep it: ‘She was playing games with me’

Lana DeGaetano

Small business owner locks the adjacent daycare out of his parking lot after the manager of the daycare has his car towed for parking in theirs, causing chaos the next day when parents try to drop off their kids: 'I tell you the mayhem was well worth it'

Brad Dickson

35-year-old mother feuds with 4-year-old son's classmate's mother for not returning her son's $50 lunch box: 'She apparently told some of the other parents that [...] I could have been more appreciative that she brought the lunch box back'

Brad Dickson

Vermont police department hire French bulldog to join their feisty force and assist kids going to school in the most wholesome way: 'He is our tactical potato'

Blake Seidel

Dad sends 9 and 13-year-old kids to boarding school 10 miles away right before they lost their mother, stepmom demands they come home 2 years later despite their wishes: 'They finally felt their boarding school was home to them.'

Emmy Pratt

Homeschooled 15-year-old does math at a 5th-grade level, mom refuses to put her in public school, no matter how much she begs: 'I have NO IDEA WHAT TO DO!'

Emmy Pratt

17-year-old refuses to wake up his lazy 15-year-old brother in the mornings, causing him to miss school, demands parents find another way: ‘I’m tired of having to wake him up’

Bar Mor Hazut

'Can we do 4?': High school sophomore students complain to teacher asking them to write 5 complete sentences

Ally Perry

8th-grade troublemaker picks on 7th-grade girl for dressing alternatively and calls her a witch, so she leans into the accusation and scares him out of his mind: ‘[He] stared at me horrified’

Lana DeGaetano

12-year-old boy's school librarian refuses to give him ‘The Hunger Games’ book because it's above his reading level, so his father buys him the series box set: ‘It broke my son's heart’

Lana DeGaetano

Student secretly reports cheating to teacher, after group of boys in her Spanish class shared exam paper in advance, later criticized by classmate who claims they “needed to pass,” forcing her to rethink her actions: 'Should I have let karma do its job?'

Emma Saven

High school teenager gets even with administrators who tried to prevent them from going to college: 'The principal and vice principal call to talk. I wasn't interested'

Remy Millisky

Substitute teacher sends kid to the principal's office for tapping her foot, her 30 classmates get even by doing the same thing until their teacher apologizes: 'Middle School is not for the weak'

Ben Weiss

Parents defend taking their kids out of school for family vacations: 'Booking flights 4 days later to match their school's vacation was going to cost me $7,000 more'

Emmy Pratt

Mom of high school and preschool student considers leaving 17-year-old behind when doing school pick up: 'I have to leave my house 4 times a day'

Ally Perry